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National  Catholic Register purports that LCRW represents a dwindling number of supporters.

While the LCWR membership continues its dramatic decline, thousands of new nuns and sisters are giving their lives to vibrant, faithful orders, as they put into action their dedicated and loving service to the Church and the world.

The untold story is that these faithful nuns and sisters are often not supported by the work of those who make up the LCWR. We are aware of many who are suppressed by their very own leaders (those nice sounding ladies you see at the press conferences who speak in soft, gentle and peaceful tones of “dialogue” and "contemplation"). You heard me right. The surface claim that these women live in democratically ordered communities and that these communities are perfectly represented by the LCWR is, in fact, often not the case. These suppressed nuns and sisters cling to the charisms that moved their hearts to give their lives to God. They cling to the Church, the holy Mother that gave birth to the love of their devotion. In response, they are often denied representation in their own orders. Their desires are supplanted by those who are politically motived and claim the mantle of their charisms, but who have long abandoned any semblance of their founders’ visions.

The Register has worked diligently to report on this issue accurately and with charity. Here's a breakdown of the majority of our coverage of the news and commentary:

• Doctrinal Assessment of the LCWR: Safeguarding the Integrity of Consecrated Life — Mother Assumpta Long, April 2012
• Call to Obedience — Editors, April 2012
• When Reverend Mothers Cease Being Motherly – Is the Vatican Attacking Nuns? – Tim Drake, May 2012
• What's Going On With the LCWR? — Donna Bethell, June 2012
• The LCWR, CDF and the Doctrinal Assessment — Bishop Leonard Blair, June 2012
• LCWR Leader Given National Platform to Uphold Church Teaching. What Did She Say? — Donna Bethell, July 2012
• Bishop Leonard Blair Takes on the LCWR — Donna Bethell, Aug. 2, 2012
• LCWR Prepares to Discuss Response to Vatican Mandate to Reform — Ann Carey, Aug. 3, 2012
• Futurist (Read New Age Guru) Addresses LCWR Assembly — Ann Carey, Aug. 8, 2012
• Day 2 of the LCWR Assembly: Contemplating a Response to the Vatican — Ann Carey, Aug. 9, 2012
• LCWR Assembly Day 3: High Expectations — Ann Carey, Aug. 10, 2012
• Reflections on the LCWR Assembly — Ann Carey, Aug. 11, 2012
• Register Radio: New Age Influence at the LCWR

 

• Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/dan-burke/vatican-attacks-nuns-again#ixzz24KQeoLEBAssembly — Fr. Mitch Pacwa/Ann Carey, Aug. 17, 2012